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and better than any other. Would you kind¬ 
ly send us a few seeds that we may test them? 
Respectfully, Ed. R. N.-Y. 
Dear Sir:—I have much pleasuro in com¬ 
plying with your request for a sample of the 
New Extra Early Pea we have for some time 
past been engaged in perfecting, and we 
should be very glad to have you place them 
in your trial grounds und compare them with 
any other peas of the same class you may have 
obtained. They will bear* close comparison 
and w a are confident you will find them a 
great acquisition. We have been working 
at them for several years, and are more than 
satisfied with the results obtained. Tory pro¬ 
lific (please note size of the pods), we claim 
them to be the earliest and most even in 
maturing of any pea yet introduced, and 
know the pea itself will substantiate every 
claim we make for it. Hoping that at the 
earliest practicable moment you will favor us 
with your opinion of them. I remain 
Yours respectfully, 
A. B. Cleveland per J. E. Northrup. 
Dear Sir:—We received May 4 or5, 50 seeds 
of your new pea These were planted May 0. 
A severe spell of dry weather followed. June 
20, the vines were 2}£ feet high, slender but 
remarkably uniform in hight and habit. One 
hundred pods weighed 19 ounces, containing 
654 seeds which weighed eight ounces. The 
peas ripen very nearly all at once. Wo are 
disposed to regard them as really the “First 
and Best” in cultivation and would be pleased 
to secure a quantity large enough to send to 
Rural subscribers in our next Free Seed Dis¬ 
tribution if not too costly. Hoping to hear 
from you at once. Respectfully, 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Dear Sir:—Your favor of the 23d ulto. at 
hand and noted. At thi3 time of the year we 
are obliged to be among our pea crop con¬ 
stantly, and have until now been unable to 
give your communication the consideration it 
demanded, otherwise it would have been 
answered more promptly. We are gratified 
to receive such a good report of the peas sent 
you by us at your request for trial, and feel 
sure that under more favorable conditions 
the. would have done even better. Our own 
trials prove them to be decidedly superior to 
any others we have tested them with, and 
we have grown them side by side with every 
other Extra Early of any note. We should 
be greatly pleased to have them introduced 
through the medium of your valued paper. 
take one thousand ($1,000) dollars a bushel for 
what we now have. We hope the proposition 
as above will meet your approval. Should it 
do so please tn let us know at as early a date 
as possible the number of pens you will re¬ 
quire and wo will send you all we possibly can 
spare. Yours respectfully, 
A.. B. Cleveland per J. E. Northrup. 
THIRD. 
THE CROSS-BRED DIEHL-MEDITER 
RANEAN WHEAT. 
WE received last year from several persons 
a small quantity of this wheat to test 
Through some mistake one drill was marked 
as having been received from Sir. J. B. 
Lawes, of England. It was sown cot until 
October and every plant passed t’no Winter 
without harm, tillered more than any other 
the best of a number of selected earssentto 
us by the originator and true to nature both 
as to the ear, kernel cross-section and cob. 
We have about one acre of this corn growing 
at the Rural Experiment Grounds, but at the 
time we are obliged to make these notes it is 
not far enough advanced to justify us in 
arriving at anv conclusions. Our readers 
may rely at harvest upon an impartial report 
THE RURAL’S 
Next Free Seed Distribution, 
THE RURAL UNION CORN 
20 Years' Selection 
FROM THREE KINDS AT FIRST. 
Prolific, Early, Six Foot High. 
Large Kernels, Small Cobb. 
Cleveland’s Rural New-Yorker Pea. 
“I would not sell my stock for $1,000 per 
bushel,’’ says the originator. The Earliest 
and best iu Cultivation. It will not 
be offered for sale in two years. 
Cross-Bred Mediterranean-Diehl 
The Hardiest and Most Prolific of Wheats. 
A NEW RYE 
OF GREAT PROMISE. 
Horsford’s Market Garden Pea. 
An Intermediate of Great Productiveness. 
Not offered for sale. 
BLACK CHAMPION OATS 
A Selection from many Foreign 
Varieties. Not offered 
for sale. 
The Rural Garden Treasures 
Enough for a small Garden of the Choicest 
Annuals. Biennials and Perennials. 
One hundred lciuds from the 
Rural Grounds, from 
Europe and Rural 
Subscribers. 
TOMATOES 
A mixed Packet of all THE new kinds 
together with several originating at 
the Rural Experiment Grounds 
and never offered for sale. 
A Really Valuable Combination of New and 
Choice Varieties offered to all subscribers 
of the Ru R.\L Ne w - Y oiiKKP. who apply 
sending us u throe vent stomp in 
part-payment of postage and 
as u guarantee that they 
ore interested in caring' 
for the seeds. 
THE ENTIRE COLLECTION TO EACH APPLICANT. 
THE RURAL UNION CORN, 
Thousand Fold Rye.—Fig. 613. 
kind and ripened with Clawson. The other 
plots which proved to be the same were equally 
hardy, but as they wore sown in September 
this was deemed the hardiest and in our re¬ 
port was the ouly variety ranked at 100. The 
illustrations Figs. 613-9show a front and a side 
view of the average head as raised in our experi¬ 
ment plot. There are 10 breasts or spikelets to a 
side, each containing from three to fourgrains 
which are of u dark. aml>or color. In our 
soil and climate the Clawson or Fultz will 
average but a fraction over two grains to a 
spikelet. The following letter written July 
IS iu response to our request, is by Mr. E. H. 
Libby, the agricultural specialist of Hiram 
Sibley & Co., of Rochester, X. Y. 
“We scud you by express to-day two stools 
of the Hybrid Mediterranean Wheat from our 
test garden plat. The rust you will see on the 
leaves is due to excessive wet aud alternate 
hot days, but no harm has resulted to the 
The origiuator of this com states that it was 
produced by planting three varieties together 
in the same field 20 years ago, and continuing 
to make selections from year to year of the 
best ears which continued to show the three 
strains. He further states that ho has re¬ 
peatedly raised over 100 bushels of shelled 
corn per acre under good care and cultiva¬ 
tion; that the stalks are more prolific even 
than Blount’s, often Ixaring three largo ears 
to a stalk and occasionally four and five; that 
it will ripen in 90 dags in average seasons; 
that it grows but sue feet high; that the cob 
is small, the kernels large and that the grain 
makes a meal distinctly superior to that of 
any other dent corn. 
We do not either credit or discredit these 
remarkable claims, we do but present them to 
the reader as they have been mode to us. 
The engraving p. 558 Fig. 614 is drawn from 
Black Champion Oats.—Fig 613. 
from the Rural, whether it may greatly dis¬ 
appoint tho hopes of the originator or realize 
his expectations. 
We have for some time been trying to satisfy 
ourselves with an appropriate uame and your 
letter has served to solve that difficulty U’e 
have decided, in recognition of that journal 
which has done so mue h to advance the in 
terest of the agriculturist and market gar- 
deuer, to call the pea—“Cleveland’s Rural 
New-Yorker” and to give the christe ning a 
substantial character we will send enough of 
them to enable each applicant (subscriber to 
the Rur al) to judge personally' of their merits. 
Of course, wo can spare you but few us our 
stock is so small aud valuable, that under the 
most favorable circumstances wo cannot sell 
them in any quantity for at least two years. 
If wo should seek to sell you any, vou might 
deem our price excessive, as we would not 
SECOND, 
CLEVELAND’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PEA. 
The following correspondence will explain 
itself: 
Mr. A. B. Cleveland, 
Cape Vincent, N. J. 
Dear Sir:—Wo hear that through several 
years you have been making careful selections 
from the earliest peas iu cultivation, aud that 
tho resulting improved strain is really earlier 
